'''Demons''' were a race of [[spirits (creatures)|evil spirits]] that ranked among the most powerful of [[Morgoth]]'s servants. The chief of the demons were the '''[[Balrogs]]''', seduced to [[Melkor]]'s service in the beginning of the world. It seems the Dark Lord also had other lesser demons at his command.<ref>{{S|IId}}</ref>

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'''Demons''' were a race of [[spirits (creatures)|evil spirits]] that ranked among the most powerful of [[Morgoth]]'s servants. The chief of the demons were the '''[[Balrogs]]''', seduced to [[Morgoth|Melkor]]'s service in the beginning of the world. It seems the Dark Lord also had other lesser demons at his command.<ref>{{S|IId}}</ref><ref>{{S|9}} ("''...countless became the hosts of [Morgoth's] beasts and his demons''")</ref>

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==Names==

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The [[Quenya]] word for "demon" is ''rauka'', and the [[Sindarin]] cognate was ''raug''. Both derive from the [[root]] [[RUKU|RUK]].<ref>{{PE|17}}, p. 48</ref>

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In [[Gnomish]], one of [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s early conceptions of an [[Elvish|Elven]] language, the word for "demon" is ''graug''. A cognate of the same meaning in [[Qenya]] is given as ''arauke''.<ref>{{PE|11}}, p. 42</ref>

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:The ''Regmyl'' are fire-demon spirits, called forth by the will of a Balrog.<ref>[http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Monster:Rogmul Monster:Rogmul] at [http://lorebook.lotro.com Lorebook.lotro.com] (accessed 5 March 2011)</ref>

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:The ''Regmyl'' (sing. ''Rogmul'') are fire-demon spirits, called forth by the will of a Balrog.<ref>[http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Monster:Rogmul Monster:Rogmul] at [http://lorebook.lotro.com Lorebook.lotro.com] (accessed 5 March 2011)</ref>

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Demons were a race of evil spirits that ranked among the most powerful of Morgoth's servants. The chief of the demons were the Balrogs, seduced to Melkor's service in the beginning of the world. It seems the Dark Lord also had other lesser demons at his command.[1][2]

A distinction is made between "animate demons" and "place-demons". The former have a body, and entail such creatures as lesser and greater Balrogs, Helegrogs ("demons of ice") and Dindair ("silent shadow", demons of shadow). Place-demons (bandúrhoth, "people of the dark prison") are incorporeal and "cannot be physically battled", an example being Caradhras the Cruel.[7]